Technology
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Israeli Investors Join SpaceX IPO, Betting on Starlink and Starship
HAWTHORNE, California, July 9 — For millions of people around the world, the internet remains a distant promise,…
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Desalination Plants and Water Recycling Scale Up as Water Stress Spreads
LOS ANGELES, July 9 — The figure that matters: 2 billion. That is the number of people globally…
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Mountain Pass Mine: How the Pentagon Backed America’s Only Rare Earth Producer
MOUNTAIN PASS, Calif., July 9 — The only operating rare earth mine in the United States sits in…
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Painting Satellites Black: Surrey’s Vantablack Answer to a Crowded Night Sky
ISLAMABAD, July 6 — Satellite constellations promise to connect the world’s most remote communities to the internet, but…
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Sticky Notes in Her Shoes: The $1.7B President Behind SpaceX’s IPO
LOS ANGELES, July 9 — The number that matters: $180 billion. That is the valuation of SpaceX, the…
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Pearl Street 1882: The First Central Power Plant and DC’s Long Goodbye
NEW YORK, July 8 — The figure that matters: 59. That was the number of customers Thomas Edison’s…
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From Memory Foam to Cordless Drills: NASA Inventions in Everyday Life
WASHINGTON, July 8 — When astronauts on the Apollo missions needed to drill moon rocks, they used a…
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FCC Plans to Exempt Satellites From Federal Environmental Reviews
WASHINGTON, July 7 — The Federal Communications Commission is weighing a proposal that would exempt satellite systems from…
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SpaceX Vaporizes 260 Starlink Satellites Over Six Months, Raising Concerns
WASHINGTON, July 7 — 260. That is the number of Starlink satellites SpaceX intentionally deorbited and burned up…
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Starlink Satellites Deorbited via Controlled Burn-Up in Atmosphere
CAPE CANAVERAL, July 7 — The thousands of small satellites blanketing the sky in the name of global…
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SpaceX Vaporizes 260 Starlink Satellites Over Six Months
WASHINGTON, July 7 — SpaceX has deliberately deorbited and vaporized 260 Starlink satellites over the past six months,…
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SpaceX Starlink: Scale, Growth, and Decommissioning Stats
CAPE CANAVERAL, July 7 — SpaceX has deorbited 260 Starlink satellites in the first six months of 2025,…
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SpaceX Retires 260 Starlink Satellites, With 349 More Queued, in FCC Filing
CAPE CANAVERAL, July 7 — The economics of space are shifting under the weight of hardware failures. SpaceX,…
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SpaceX’s Starlink Fleet Grows to Over 6,000 Satellites
LOS ANGELES, July 7 — Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX, has built the world’s largest…
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SpaceX Reports Burning Up 260 Starlink Satellites in Six Months, 349 More Queued
LOS ANGELES, July 7 — A regulatory filing by the Federal Communications Commission shows that SpaceX’s Starlink satellite…
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FCC Plans to Exempt Satellites From Federal Environmental Reviews at Sept. 30 Vote
WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), an independent U.S. government agency established by the Communications Act of…
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SpaceX Deorbited 260 Starlink Satellites in Six Months, FCC Filing Shows
CAPE CANAVERAL, July 7 — Over the course of six months ending in early 2025, SpaceX steered 260…
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260 Starlink Satellites Re-entered the Atmosphere in Six Months, SpaceX Tells FCC
ISLAMABAD, July 7 — The economics of satellite internet are shifting beneath the feet of the industry’s biggest…
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Ultra-Black Vantablack 310 Coating Could Dim Satellites, Surrey Study Finds
ROME, July 6 — For astronomers, a satellite streaking across the night sky is more than a nuisance.…
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Surrey Study: Vantablack 310 Coating Could Cut Satellite Glare for Astronomers
WASHINGTON, July 6 — A new ultra-black coating that reflects only two percent of incoming light could make…
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How Nuclear Fusion Works: The Science of Recreating a Star on Earth
WASHINGTON, July 6 — The race to harness the power of the stars is entering a new phase,…
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Ultra-Black Coating Reflects 2% of Light, Slashes Satellite Pollution
ROME, July 6 — For families who have taken children to see the Milky Way, only to find…
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Heat Wave Pushes Mid-Atlantic Grid Toward Record Demand and Diesel Backup
This week’s nationwide heatwave is doing something months of warnings from utilities could not: it is forcing a…
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Rocket Lab Acquires Iridium Satellite Network for $8 Billion
Iridium’s 2.55 million subscribers just got a new landlord. Rocket Lab, the California rocket builder, is buying the…
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